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Patty Lane (played by Duke) was a normal teenager living in the Brooklyn Heights section of New York City , who loved boys, ice cream, and sleepovers. In the first episode, her "identical cousin" Cathy (also played by Duke) came over to the United States from Scotland to live with Patty's family. Their close physical resemblance to each other is explained by their fathers being identical twin brothers. Patty's father, Martin (played by , the Ballet Russe , and Crepes Suzette , while Patty loved to Rock 'n' Roll ; a Hot Dog "made her lose control." Also seen was Patty's mother Natalie (played by Jean Byron ) and Patty's brother Ross (played by Paul O'Keefe ). The dual role for Duke challenged Special Effects for its time, which were for the most part in its infancy, considering television special effects were altogether a new thing in the early 1960s . When special effects proved too demanding, child actress Rita McLaughlin was used as Duke's double. This would not be possible if the show were aired in color, because even though the two actresses' hair shades were the same in monochrome, Duke's was brown in real life while McLaughlin's was bright red. Already a budding star in her own right, ''The Patty Duke Show'' allowed Duke to stay in the public consciousness. As the series went on, her star power from the series allowed her to enter the realm of popular music, releasing a Top Ten single, "Don't Just Stand There", in 1965 . Although the series was still popular during its final season, ABC decided not to renew it for the '66/'67 season on the basis that filming it in color would have been prohibitively expensive. In '', which reunited most of the original cast, including Duke, Byron, O'Keefe, and Schallert. Patty and Richard married after high school, had a son, and are now amicably divorced (though toward the end of the movie they reconcile). Cathy is a widow living in Scotland, and has a teenage son. Most of the plot revolves around Patty's old rival Sue Ellen's plans to buy Brooklyn Heights High School, raze it, and replace it with a mall, which is opposed by Patty, Cathy, and the rest of the family. EXTERNAL LINKS
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